Print Email Facebook Twitter Financial institutions have owner-occupancy in a stranglehold: An explanation for the recession in the Dutch housing market Title Financial institutions have owner-occupancy in a stranglehold: An explanation for the recession in the Dutch housing market Author Boelhouwer, P.J. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Research for the Built Environment Date 2014-02-05 Abstract Like many other West-European countries, the Dutch housing market fell into a depression since the fall of Lehman Brothers at the end of 2008 and the credit crunch started. After 2010, many housing markets in Europe recovered from the financial crisis and experienced growing house prices again. This was however not the case in the Netherlands. The housing market did not recover and was hit even more in 2012. This contribution gives an explanation for this remarkable event. It’s argued that the operation of several important financial institutions and the housing policy of the Dutch government gives a plausible explanation for the problems on the Dutch housing market and the fall of Dutch prices more specific. Subject financial institutionsDutch housing marketrecessionhousing ownership To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1a5f3a84-414e-4c94-905d-abfd8a0d4776 Publisher Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Embargo date 2014-02-06 Source Working Papers 2014-04 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2014 Boelhouwer, P.J.OTB Research for the Built Environment Files PDF OTB_Working_papers_2014-0 ... lehold.pdf 685.97 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1a5f3a84-414e-4c94-905d-abfd8a0d4776/datastream/OBJ/view